borg-list - List archive or repository contents
borg [common options] list [options] [REPOSITORY_OR_ARCHIVE]
[PATH...]
This command lists the contents of a repository or an archive.
See the "borg help patterns" command for more help on
exclude patterns.
See borg-common(1) for common options of Borg commands.
- --short
- only print file/directory names, nothing else
- --format FORMAT, --list-format FORMAT
- specify format for file listing (default: "{mode} {user:6} {group:6}
{size:8d} {mtime} {path}{extra}{NL}")
- --json
- Only valid for listing repository contents. Format output as JSON. The
form of --format is ignored, but keys used in it are added to the
JSON output. Some keys are always present. Note: JSON can only represent
text. A "barchive" key is therefore not available.
- --json-lines
- Only valid for listing archive contents. Format output as JSON Lines. The
form of --format is ignored, but keys used in it are added to the
JSON output. Some keys are always present. Note: JSON can only represent
text. A "bpath" key is therefore not available.
- -P PREFIX, --prefix PREFIX
- only consider archive names starting with this prefix.
- -a GLOB, --glob-archives GLOB
- only consider archive names matching the glob. sh: rules apply, see
"borg help patterns". --prefix and --glob-archives
are mutually exclusive.
- --sort-by KEYS
- Comma-separated list of sorting keys; valid keys are: timestamp, name, id;
default is: timestamp
- --first N
- consider first N archives after other filters were applied
- --last N
- consider last N archives after other filters were applied
$ borg list /path/to/repo
Monday Mon, 2016-02-15 19:15:11
repo Mon, 2016-02-15 19:26:54
root-2016-02-15 Mon, 2016-02-15 19:36:29
newname Mon, 2016-02-15 19:50:19
...
$ borg list /path/to/repo::root-2016-02-15
drwxr-xr-x root root 0 Mon, 2016-02-15 17:44:27 .
drwxrwxr-x root root 0 Mon, 2016-02-15 19:04:49 bin
-rwxr-xr-x root root 1029624 Thu, 2014-11-13 00:08:51 bin/bash
lrwxrwxrwx root root 0 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:26 bin/bzcmp -> bzdiff
-rwxr-xr-x root root 2140 Fri, 2015-03-27 20:24:22 bin/bzdiff
...
$ borg list /path/to/repo::archiveA --format="{mode} {user:6} {group:6} {size:8d} {isomtime} {path}{extra}{NEWLINE}"
drwxrwxr-x user user 0 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 .
drwxrwxr-x user user 0 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code
drwxrwxr-x user user 0 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject
-rw-rw-r-- user user 1416192 Sun, 2015-02-01 11:00:00 code/myproject/file.ext
...
The following keys are available for --format:
- NEWLINE: OS dependent line separator
- NL: alias of NEWLINE
- NUL: NUL character for creating print0 / xargs -0 like output, see
barchive/bpath
- SPACE
- TAB
- CR
- LF
Keys for listing repository archives:
- archive: archive name interpreted as text (might be missing non-text
characters, see barchive)
- name: alias of "archive"
- barchive: verbatim archive name, can contain any character except NUL
- comment: archive comment interpreted as text (might be missing non-text
characters, see bcomment)
- bcomment: verbatim archive comment, can contain any character except
NUL
- id: internal ID of the archive
- start: time (start) of creation of the archive
- time: alias of "start"
- end: time (end) of creation of the archive
- hostname: hostname of host on which this archive was created
- username: username of user who created this archive
Keys for listing archive files:
- type
- mode
- uid
- gid
- user
- group
- path: path interpreted as text (might be missing non-text characters, see
bpath)
- bpath: verbatim POSIX path, can contain any character except NUL
- source: link target for links (identical to linktarget)
- linktarget
- flags
- size
- csize: compressed size
- dsize: deduplicated size
- dcsize: deduplicated compressed size
- num_chunks: number of chunks in this file
- unique_chunks: number of unique chunks in this file
- mtime
- ctime
- atime
- isomtime
- isoctime
- isoatime
- md5
- sha1
- sha224
- sha256
- sha384
- sha512
- archiveid
- archivename
- extra: prepends {source} with " -> " for soft links and
" link to " for hard links
- health: either "healthy" (file ok) or "broken" (if
file has all-zero replacement chunks)